Word: frankfurter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photographs of the human heart beating, and was one of the first to discover radiation's therapeutic value in the treatment of tumors; of radiation poisoning (a toxic dose, which he absorbed in his 20s, continued to poison his body until it finally caused his death); in Frankfurt...
Rising out of snow-covered farm lands on the south bank of Germany's Main River near Frankfurt are the scaffolds for an expanse of buildings that will be one of Europe's largest privately owned research laboratories when completed later this year. To link the 600 scientists who will work in its new $25 million research facility with the main plant on the north bank, the chemical firm Hoechst Farbewerke is spanning the river with a 430-ft., two-lane bridge...
...almost insane in his violence." The black angels hovered over Munch (pronounced Moonk) to his death in 1944 -and they helped inspire some of the world's most chilling prints and paintings. Last week 133 of them could be seen in a generous Munch retrospective on display in Frankfurt, West Germany, as the opening show of the newly rebuilt quarters of the city-supported Art Club, which was bombed out during World...
Alas, poor Oleg! When Soviet intelligence raided his apartment, said Pravda, they found three miniature cameras for photographing documents, code books, chemically treated paper for sending invisible messages, radios to receive instructions from spy headquarters in Frankfurt and transmit "information about the U.S.S.R.'s scientific, technical, war and political problems." Why, with such equipment, Oleg resorted to such clumsy devices as scrawling signs on lampposts and hiding information behind apartment-house radiators. Pravda's thriller writer does not explain. It would never happen in a James Bond story...
...field of study, and for maps as tools of study. The first paragraph of his contribution, however, describes the present state of the Widener map collection with something less than his usual objectivity. I fear that my old friend (how long it seems since we first met at the Frankfurt book fair!) is becoming a little senile, or perhaps he has been working too late at nights on his Atlas...